Make Way for Noddy
British-American CGI animated series
Make Way for Noddy is the American-British CGI children's musical computer-animated television series. The show aired on PBS and PBS Kids in the United States for the first and the second seasons in 2001 and later on Channel 5 and Milkshake! in the United Kingdom for Seasons 1 and 2 respectively in 2002.
| Make Way for Noddy | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy Musical |
| Created by | Mallory Lewis |
| Based on | Classic Noddy works and characters of Enid Blyton |
| Directed by | Byron Vaughns |
| Presented by | Naomi Wilkinson (US TV airings) |
| Voices of | David A. Kaye Britt McKillip Michael Dobson Tabitha St. Germain Richard Newman Don Brown Doug Parker Matt Hill |
| Theme music composer | Steven Bernstein Julie Bernstein |
| Opening theme | "Make Way for Noddy" performed by the Kidsongs Kids |
| Composer(s) | Score: Steven Bernstein Julie Bernstein Original Songs: Steven Bernstein Julie Bernstein Lorraine Feather Larry Grossman Music Direction: Sharon Sampson Terry Sampson |
| Country of origin | United States United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | American English British English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 100 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jonathan Dern Paul Sabella Carol Monroe Mallory Lewis Brad Hood |
| Producer(s) | Robert Winthrop Byron Vaughns |
| Editor(s) | Jymn Magon |
| Running time | 11 minutes (Five); 30 minutes (PBS Kids) |
| Production company(s) | Chorion SD Entertainment Wang Film Productions (animation) |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television (through DreamWorks Classics) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 5/Five (United Kingdom) PBS Kids (United States) |
| Original release | 1 January – 31 December 2001 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Noddy's Toyland Adventures (1992-1999) Noddy in Toyland (2009) Noddy, Toyland Detective (2016-2017) |
Broadcast/Development/History/Notes/TriviaEdit
- The original US version by BLT Productions and Koko Studios of the US show on PBS and PBS Kids for the first and the second seasons in 2001. The Children's Chorus, the narrator and some of the characters are speaking American with an American accents. The word is pronounce by the American pronunciation.
- The UK dub of the US show in the same year on Channel 5 and Millshake! in 2002 instead of the original US version on PBS and PBS Kids in 2001.
- When it comes to this particular dub, while a lot of the original US voices remained intact and some of the characters were re-dubbed to have a British with an British accents in the UK dub.
- Richard Newman and Teryl Rothery reprises her roles as Mr. Plod and Miss Pink Cat from the first 2 seasons of the original.
